Seggie Farm at Guardbridge proved to be an ideal venue for the Fife Vintage Agricultural Machinery Club’s Rally and Farming Heritage Show.
The unseasonal weather had put paid to the club’s traditional site at Strathmiglo.
However, even torrential rain on the Saturday evening did not affect this superb venue kindly offered by the Dawson family as the spectacle took place under blue skies last Sunday.
With exhibits coming from County Durham, Lincolnshire and Cumbria in the south, Ayrshire and Dumfriesshire in the west and Aberdeenshire in the north, the event was deemed a huge success.
The beef and hay themes were the focal point in a very busy main ring.
Machinery ranging from finger bar and drum mowers to a crimper brought all the way from Lincolnshire by David Leech was seen in action as was a selection of hay turners, side delivery rakes and wufflers.
A huge turnout of pick-up balers included models from all the major manufacturers, and there was a bale-handling display to follow.
Perhaps the most popular section of the hay theme was the display of haymaking by heavy horses from Dave and Robert Nelson, Benny Duncan and Ross Kinnaird along with all their helpers.
This was most probably one of the best heavy horse demonstration ever seen in the modern age, with hay mowers, turners, kickers and rakes put through their paces alongside a Tumblin, Tam which brought hay to the hay fork which fed John Rennie’s Jones stationary baler driven by the Cook family’s 1898 Marshall steam engine.
The climax of the hay-making theme was the operation of a pike or ruck maker by Bill Allan, who had brought it all the way from Silloth in Cumbria to use in conjunction with the Nelsons’ green crop loader and behind Benny Duncan’s pair of Clydesdales.
The beef section was no less entertaining, with the surprise appearance of a pantomime cow being put out to graze before being rounded up by the kids and inspected by the vet.
The presence of Balhelvie Beef completed the beef story.
Next year the organisers have chosen malting barley as the theme and are already planning the event.
More photos on the club website www.fvamc.co.uk.